Table 3.

Association of Health Index with the Time Discount Rate for Older HRS Respondents

	Healthy Behaviors Index
Discount rate	−0.300	**	−0.269	**	−0.254	*
	(0.126)		(0.129)		(0.130)
Age			0.039	***	0.040	***
			(0.008)		(0.008)
Male			−0.273	***	−0.311	***
			(0.099)		(0.100)
White			0.083		0.071
			(0.126)		(0.123)
Hispanic			0.058		0.106
			(0.159)		(0.157)
Education years			0.018		0.014
			(0.018)		(0.017)
Married			0.110		0.067
			(0.093)		(0.098)
Cognition score			0.012		0.011
			(0.011)		(0.011)
Christian			0.306		0.305
			(0.223)		(0.233)
Jewish			0.148		0.097
			(0.305)		(0.306)
Procrastinator score			−0.011		−0.012
			(0.013)		(0.013)
Optim. live 10+ years			−0.125		−0.141
			(0.087)		(0.088)
Have living children			−0.298		−0.320	*
			(0.188)		(0.184)
Leave any bequest			0.136		0.132
			(0.108)		(0.109)
Poor health index					0.045
					(0.050)
Mental shortfall					0.262
					(0.175)
Ln(HH income)					0.070	**
					(0.033)
Intercept	3.466	***	−0.148		−0.912
	(0.079)		(0.772)		(0.833)
N	514		514		514
R-squared	0.011		0.111		0.123
Mean of dep. vars	3.305
Std.dev. of dep. vars	0.970

See notes to Table 1.